It's just something he offhandedly admitted at one of the Blizzcon panels. I probably shouldn't have even brought it up, but I wanted to elaborate on why I cut him so little slack.
I'm talking about putting personal entertainment above human dignity, the life-ain't-fair-so-I'll-make-it-even-less-fair mentality, emotional retardation, call it what you will...the online "griefer" that is Jay Wilson, renowned teabagger and concocter of human misery.
Where did I breathe a word about the article? If anything I respect the candidness of "fuck that loser."
The online escapades I'm referring to is his swath of virtual death and destruction against helpless noobs everywhere. He thinks they can eat shit? I think he can eat shit. Simple mathematics.
No, I changed my mind. If Jay's gonna operate on "do as thou wilt" with no remorse in his online escapades, a shitstorm is exactly what he reaps from fans all around the world operating on that very same principle (or lack thereof). Regardless, the game itself suffers from some easily identifiable and correctable mistakes. I mean, no one forced him to take that lofty position. When you accept that kind of responsibility there is room for honest mistakes but none for bungling buffoonery.
It's just not right though. So Jay loses interest in the uninteresting game he developed, and everyone else has to clean up the mess. Years of their professional lives that they'll never get back.
All I can say is this new game better be a home run, or else... my diatribe about its legendary suckitude will be twice as big. You don't want that, Jay. You're on notice...
It's just ridiculous that Sanctuary seems to be run by a bunch of incompetents. "Oh your PRECIOUS LAWS" bemoans Tyrael, like c'mon. It's freaking heaven. Are the laws not divinely inspired? Or is the place supposed to be some kind of half-baked democracy? Maybe it's an analogy for D3's dev process.
If he weren't a self-proclaimed griefer I might have hesitated to call him a worthless fat fuck.
Hardcore and rerolling is pointless because of the static leveling, a game mechanic that is objectively bad. Seriously, there's avante garde game design and there's stupidity on a profound level.
Don't get me started with the delayed PvP. So much for that special awkward newb phase that is the innocent, golden era of every online PvP experience. Now straight out of the gate, everyone is going to be double-triple-quadruple decked with the most obscene gear Real Money can buy. What a wash.
Then again, who can argue with 10+ million? I can. D2's former glory, and a bunch of WoW nerds desperately looking for some variety, is what sold D3. I wonder, do internal analysts see D3 as a definitive success? Because there's one thing money can't buy: brand recognition.
All the fanbois bitched me out when I said the game had no lasting appeal. Now those mouth-breathers are long gone to the newest Call of Booby with zero memory in their Ritalin-soaked brains of what a Diablo was, while I'm still here. I'm a legit fan that stills care about Diablo (even though Blizzard North got shit-canned, the spirit of the game endures with the fans). I might even get the expansion because I now have the proper expectation that I'm barely getting my money's worth once and not ten times over like previous games.
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It's just something he offhandedly admitted at one of the Blizzcon panels. I probably shouldn't have even brought it up, but I wanted to elaborate on why I cut him so little slack.
I'm talking about putting personal entertainment above human dignity, the life-ain't-fair-so-I'll-make-it-even-less-fair mentality, emotional retardation, call it what you will...the online "griefer" that is Jay Wilson, renowned teabagger and concocter of human misery.
Where did I breathe a word about the article? If anything I respect the candidness of "fuck that loser."
The online escapades I'm referring to is his swath of virtual death and destruction against helpless noobs everywhere. He thinks they can eat shit? I think he can eat shit. Simple mathematics.
No, I changed my mind. If Jay's gonna operate on "do as thou wilt" with no remorse in his online escapades, a shitstorm is exactly what he reaps from fans all around the world operating on that very same principle (or lack thereof). Regardless, the game itself suffers from some easily identifiable and correctable mistakes. I mean, no one forced him to take that lofty position. When you accept that kind of responsibility there is room for honest mistakes but none for bungling buffoonery.
OK. That's fair.
Well, Blizz clearly knows something I don't.
It's just not right though. So Jay loses interest in the uninteresting game he developed, and everyone else has to clean up the mess. Years of their professional lives that they'll never get back.
All I can say is this new game better be a home run, or else... my diatribe about its legendary suckitude will be twice as big. You don't want that, Jay. You're on notice...
It's just ridiculous that Sanctuary seems to be run by a bunch of incompetents. "Oh your PRECIOUS LAWS" bemoans Tyrael, like c'mon. It's freaking heaven. Are the laws not divinely inspired? Or is the place supposed to be some kind of half-baked democracy? Maybe it's an analogy for D3's dev process.
If he weren't a self-proclaimed griefer I might have hesitated to call him a worthless fat fuck.
Hardcore and rerolling is pointless because of the static leveling, a game mechanic that is objectively bad. Seriously, there's avante garde game design and there's stupidity on a profound level.
Don't get me started with the delayed PvP. So much for that special awkward newb phase that is the innocent, golden era of every online PvP experience. Now straight out of the gate, everyone is going to be double-triple-quadruple decked with the most obscene gear Real Money can buy. What a wash.
Then again, who can argue with 10+ million? I can. D2's former glory, and a bunch of WoW nerds desperately looking for some variety, is what sold D3. I wonder, do internal analysts see D3 as a definitive success? Because there's one thing money can't buy: brand recognition.
All the fanbois bitched me out when I said the game had no lasting appeal. Now those mouth-breathers are long gone to the newest Call of Booby with zero memory in their Ritalin-soaked brains of what a Diablo was, while I'm still here. I'm a legit fan that stills care about Diablo (even though Blizzard North got shit-canned, the spirit of the game endures with the fans). I might even get the expansion because I now have the proper expectation that I'm barely getting my money's worth once and not ten times over like previous games.